El secreto de la laberíntica soledad: Huellas de la identidad social en la obra del joven García Márquez

Abstract

The book brings together biographical, historical and ideological data of the writer Gabriel García Márquez, together with the analysis and interpretation of his original short stories, twenty-two stories collected in the books Ojos de perro azul and Los funerales de la mama grande. Through various analytical operations on these narrative structures, and feeding on the importance of the impulses that motivate an author to found a literary company, the study shows how the young García Márquez represents the profile of a social identity transposed into the creation of a community of silent, solitary and undefined subjects, mere parasites harassed by effective actions superior to them and who interact in atmospheres that conceal a violence that has become a founding myth; all this cultivated in claustrophilic but porous territories. Thus, the outline of a social grammar energized in a geography of terror that exposes the living dead is founded; a pere-literary version of the historical we that supports the idea of a nation crossed by moral and physical repressions that have served as midwives of our society.